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On my desktop I use 2 virtual audio devices that are linked to my real audio card with qpwgraph in order to split audio between VoIP applications and desktop/game audio.
I tried to set this up on a mac using soundflower so I could share my screen with an edit project with the director during lockdown and still chat to them at the same time. Didn't work for some frustrating reason relating to Skype.
Funny, I was going to suggest Audio Hijack, but a search for
soundflower
revealed that Rogue Amoeba were the stewards of that app for a few years. Anyway, Audio Hijack might be what you need if you're still in the market for such a tool. Rogue Amoeba are the experts in Mac audio-routing.I believe while I was figuring this out I discovered one of rogue amoebas apps that I could use in conjunction with sound flower and I was nearly certain I had it, it was something to do with how Skype worked that sabotaged me, I couldn't believe how stubbornly persistent Skype was despite how hard I tried to workaround it. I believe I was trying to make a single virtual sound device that combined my mic output with the system Audio so I could choose that as my microphone in Skype but SOMEHOW it was always able to fuck me over don't remember how, only that I was extremely angry.
But what benefits do you get. At the end it lands on your real audio card anyways
When recording in OBS, I can split the voice and desktop audio and edit them separately.
I want this now
Pretty easy to do if you use Pipewire, just add a file named
~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/10-virtual.conf
with the following content:This will add 2 virtual sinks to your device list after a restart, which you can use in all applications.
After that you can install qpwgraph and add it to autostart: https://flathub.org/apps/org.rncbc.qpwgraph
Now you can drag & drop all connections from your Virtual sinks to you output device (as shown in the image I posted). You can even send it to multiple output devices at the same time.
When you are done hit
Ctrl + S
to save your patchbay and selectPatchbay -> Activated
. Now qpwgraph will load your connections every time it starts.